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SC.5.L.14.1
Body Organs
SC.5.L.14.1
Essential Question:
What is an organ?
Your body is made of trillions of
cells.
Cells are grouped together to form
tissues.
Tissues form organs.
Each organ performs a different
function for your body, and keeps
you alive and healthy.
and lungs.
It stores substances that are important to your body.
It makes red blood cells that fight germs.
Summarizing
Talk to your shoulder partner about how your
skeleton and muscles help you to move your
body.
Stomach
When you eat food, it goes from your mouth, through
the esophagus, and into your stomach.
juices.
All of these digestive juices pass through a tube in
your small intestine.
Small Intestine
The small intestine uses the digestive juices from the
Large Intestine
Your large intestine removes water from the material
Summarizing
Write in your science
notebook about an organ
that is involved in
digestion.
Kidneys
Blood passes through your kidneys.
Wastes carried in your blood collect in
the kidneys and form urine.
Bladder
Your bladder collects and stores
Skin
Skin is the largest organ in your body
Skin is the outer covering that protects your
Lungs
lungs.
The carbon dioxide and water leave the blood and
enter your lungs.
The liquid water changes to water vapor.
Every time you breathe out, carbon dioxide gas and
water vapor leave your body.
Summarizing
Talk to your shoulder
partner about the organs
that are responsible for
moving waste out of your
body.
Heart
Your heart is the size of your fist.
It pumps blood through your blood vessels to all parts
of your body.
Brain
Your brain has 3 main partscerebellum, cerebrum,
brain stem
It coordinates movements of muscles and helps you
keep your balance.
Controls body movements that you decide to make,
learning, thinking, memory, and imagination
Controls breathing, heartbeat, movements inside your
digestive system
Your brain controls NEARLY EVERYTHING that goes
on in your body!
Sensory organs
Your sensory organs are your eyes, ears, nose, tongue,
and skin
Their job is to get information from the environment,
(through your senses) and send it to your brain.
Summarizing
Answer this question in
your science notebook:
What are your sensory
organs, and what are
they responsible for?
Guided Practice
What is an organ?
A. A group of bones that help you move.
B. A group of tissues that perform functions for your
body.
C. Something used to play music
D. A group of cells that carry out a function
Summarizing
Answer this question in your Science
Notebook.
What are some of the organs of
the human body, and what are
their functions?
muscles
liver and gall bladder
lungs
skin
b.
c.
d.
Summary Question
Turn to your shoulder partner and tell
about one organ and the function it
performs to keep you alive and healthy.
Switch roles.